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“ثلاثون عاماً من عمري دون أن أعرف الحقيقة، ودون أن أفهم الحياة، دون أن أحقق ذاتي، وكيف كنت أحققها وأنا لا أفكر إلا في أن آخذ وآخذ وتحقيق الذات لا يكون إلا بأن أعطي وأعطي، ولكن كيف كان يمكنني أن أعطي شيئاً ليس له عندي وجود ؟”
― Nawal El Saadawi, مذكرات طبيبة

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“اليس هذا المجتمع الذي يذيع أغاني الحب والغرام هو نفسه المجتمع الذي ينصب المشنقة لكل من وقع في الحب والغرام؟”
― Nawal El Saadawi, مذكرات طبيبة

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“I felt the sudden touch of him, like a dream remembered from the distant past, or some memory that began with life. My body pulsed with an obscure pleasure, or with a pain that was not really pain but pleasure, with a pleasure I had never known before, had lived in another life that was not my life, or in another body that was not my body.

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I held his eyes fast in mine. I reached out and took his hand in mine. The feel of our hands touching was strange, sudden. It made my body tremble with a deep, distant pleasure, older than the age of remembered life, deeper than the consciousness carried within me throughout. I could feel it somewhere in my being, like a part which had been born with me when I was born, but had not grown with me when I had grown. Or like something I had known before being born, and left behind.”
― Nawal El-Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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“When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.”
― Jean Klein, I Am

tags: apophatic, eternity, meditation, nonduality, oneness, spiritual-contemplation, vedanta

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“I came to realize that a female employee is more afraid of losing her job than a prostitute is of losing her life. An employee is scared of losing her job and becoming a prostitute because she does not understand that the prostitute’s life is in fact better than hers. And so she pays the price of her illusory fears with her life, her health, her body, and her mind. She pays the highest price for things of the lowest value. I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one. I also knew that if I lost my job, all I would lose with it was the miserable salary, the contempt I could read every day in the eyes of the higher level executives when they looked at the lesser female officials, the humiliating pressure of male bodies on mine when I rode in the bus, and the long morning queue in front of a perpetually overflowing toilet.”
― Nawal El-Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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